"I wouldn't have done it had I not agreed to do "Captain America" and gone into panic mode," Evans says in a new interview with the New York Times, regarding his decision to seek therapy. "The second I agreed to do it, I was like, 'All right, I'll do this, but I've got to start working on my head.'"

The 30 year-old admits that it was more than just living up to the beloved comic book hero (who has been a masthead figure for Marvel Comics since being created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in 1941) that weighed on his mind. There were larger implications about his overall career goals.

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"The question is: What's the endgame?" he says. "What's the goal? If the goal is to be a giant movie star, then yeah, this is a great way to achieve that. That's not necessarily what I'm trying to achieve."

Evans has previously compared the Captain America role to a classic Catch-22, seeing as it required him to sign on for 6 potential films including the upcoming "Avengers" team-up movie.

"At the time, I remember telling a buddy of mine, ‘If the movie bombs, I’m f***ed. If the movie hits, I’m f***ed!'," joked Evans in an Entertainment Weekly interview.

But in typical Cap fashion, Evans realized it all comes down to facing fear and overcoming it.

"The reason I kept saying no is because I was scared. Maybe this is exactly what I had to do. Maybe this is exactly what I had to face."